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Page 399
... novels of a similar kind which followed it . Meanwhile , the revival of interest in the Middle Ages , so long despised as a dark pe- riod of superstition , was sending some novel- ists to medieval themes . But the novels they produced ...
... novels of a similar kind which followed it . Meanwhile , the revival of interest in the Middle Ages , so long despised as a dark pe- riod of superstition , was sending some novel- ists to medieval themes . But the novels they produced ...
Page 484
... novels who carry on in the old heroic way in an age when that way no longer makes any sense are left in the end as ridiculous or pathetic ( like Rob Roy and Redgauntlet in the novels of those names ) . The true heroes are the sensible ...
... novels who carry on in the old heroic way in an age when that way no longer makes any sense are left in the end as ridiculous or pathetic ( like Rob Roy and Redgauntlet in the novels of those names ) . The true heroes are the sensible ...
Page 567
... novelist became a popular entertainer on the grand scale . Lending libraries throughout the country made novels available to innumerable sub- scribers . Such libraries determined that most of these novels should be in three volumes ...
... novelist became a popular entertainer on the grand scale . Lending libraries throughout the country made novels available to innumerable sub- scribers . Such libraries determined that most of these novels should be in three volumes ...
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